Kde no sound from Phonon or most KDE apps but mplayer,skype and firefox are ok

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Can somebody tell me why I cannot get any sound with most of KDE 4?

I'm running a Gentoo box, I'm in both the 'audio' and 'video' groups. I can get sound with mplayer ( but not smplayer ) Firefox and Skype but nothing else. I can't get the test sound to play from the settings window, but Phonon is not whining about broken sound cards when I start up.

I have checked with kmix, we seem to be completely unmuted ( and I can get sound with some apps)

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